Software Engineer

Location: Linthouse Glasgow, United Kingdom

In fast changing markets, customers worldwide rely on Thales. Thales is a business where brilliant people from all over the world come together to share ideas and inspire each other. In aerospace, transportation, defence, security and space, our architects design innovative solutions that make our tomorrow’s possible.

Together we offer fantastic opportunities for committed employees to learn and develop their career with us. At Thales UK, we research, develop, and supply technology and services that impact the lives of millions of people each day to make life better, and keep us safer. We innovate across the major industries of Aerospace, Defence, Security and Space. Your health and well-being matters to us and that’s why we offer you the flexibility to do what’s important to you; whether that’s part time hours, job sharing, home working, or the ability to flex your start and finish times. Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions.

Job Title:

Factory Software Engineer

Bristol/Crawley/Glasgow (with Hybrid working)

Travel Percentage:

10 – 30 % nationally and > 5% International

Role Reports To:

Customer Enterprise Data Architect

Level (HQ):

SC – DV capable (desirable)

Primary Purpose of the Role:

To drive the evolution and deployment of Data and AI capabilities within the businesses and to our customers in order to increase growth in orders and increased customer satisfaction. 

As part of a newly established software development team, the Factory Software Engineer will work with stakeholders throughout the Thales UK businesses, to implement technology solutions that support an integrated approach to data integration/curation deployed across Thales UK. Supporting the Thales UK Digital and Data strategy the Factory Software Engineer will; develop, test, deploy and support software offerings into an internal catalogue of reusable/re-deployable capabilities focused around data integration and curation, helping deliver continuous evolution of our capabilities.

The role will interact with other data solutions architects and engineers across the business working in Data and Digital: delivering data solutions that make up new or enhanced market offers; provide technical feedback of solutions; delivering Proofs of Concept and acting as a technical expert in DevOps solutions used transversally throughout the business.

The role will be part of the Thales UK Data and Digital Competence Centre team to ensure that the technology strategy, human capabilities and opportunity pipeline is enabling the business strategy and growth.   The role will connect with stakeholders across engineering, Thales UK and Group Digital Competence Centres thinking.

Key Responsibilities and Tasks:

• Deliver solutions that meet the needs of the strategy and design, collaborate with teams to deliver on those designs.

·Support solutions both developed by the team and from other teams throughout their lifecycles enabling multi-deployment of those solutions through a catalogue strategy

• Create and maintain CI/CD Pipelines to enable efficient deployment of code by automating development and deployment processes
• Identify solution opportunities that focus on Reuse, maximising the return on development costs by reducing other programme development costs.

·Collaborate with development teams to enable the delivery of high-quality, secure, and scalable applications on the cloud with automated tools and scripts

·Recommend best practices and ensure the products developed within the organization are robust, secure and scalable

·Work with the product owner to address user needs

·Develop secure and high-quality production code, perform code reviews and able to debug issues

·Participate in agile threat modelling and vulnerability management

·Ensure compliance with security and regulatory requirements for MOD and high Design assurance softwares

• Develop solutions for where data can bring value to our offers and our customer
• Support the Customer Enterprise/Solution Data Architects in coordinating the data landscaping and cataloguing for Thales UK
• Support the Customer Enterprise and Solution Data Architects in the creation and influence of UK MoD standards for Data Management and solutions that support data management and integration
• Work to implement 3rd party data integrations to support internal and external use cases
• Working collaboratively with the various squads and technical roles to identify common issues and opportunities to improve operational and strategic delivery.
• Accountable for the creation of the technology software solution deliverables
• Horizon scan for major disruptive technology trends (trend spotting) that affect business. Provide practical advice and best practices to overcome these challenges and successfully deliver the expected business outcomes.

Skills

Technical

• Logical Analysis of technical solutions and problem solving

• Experience working on Linux or Windows based infrastructure
• Excellent understanding of modern programming languages such as Ruby, Python, Perl, and Java
• Configuration and managing databases such as MySQL, Mongo
• Excellent troubleshooting
• Working knowledge of various tools, open-source technologies, and cloud services
• Awareness of critical concepts in DevOps and Agile principles
• Knowledge of business ecosystems, SaaS, infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), SOA, APIs, open data, microservices, event-driven IT, predictive analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence
  • General IT Knowledge (applications, storage, networks, IT infrastructure, Infrastructure, service level agreements, Asset management etc)
• Familiarity with information management practices, system development life cycle management, IT services management, infrastructure and operations, and EA and ITIL frameworks
  • Technical IT (security, transaction processing, user interface, data management, Operating Systems Services)
  • Ability to design innovative solutions whilst adhering to strong security constraints.
  • Experience of the latest technology trends and their application within Data – including but not limited to AI, machine learning containerisation, IOT, big data and cloud.

Interpersonal Skills

• Ability to engage and influence a diverse set of stakeholders (Product Engineering Leaders, Customer, Design Authorities, Project Management, IS/IT)
• Ability to work in complex multi-stakeholder environment to create clear and achievable goals.
• Able to influence a wide range of people to get things done – needs to be highly effective in a matrix based organisation – a good team player.
• Excellent communication skills and interpersonal skills – encourages an open environment where information and ideas are shared and innovative thinking is stimulated.  Will be adept at effectively building stakeholder relationships and working collaboratively with customer, supplier and internal teams.

• Capable of effectively engaging with technical staff, suppliers and stakeholders to define the best architectural design to achieve business/user objectives. Detailed technical expertise is not always essential, but the ability to understand and support technical discussion to conclusion with confidence is essential
  • Team player with a sharp intellect, challenging approach and a “can do attitude”.
  • Experience of multi-stakeholder change management activities

Experience:

Essential

• In excess of 5 years’ experience in the defence Industry or Aviation/Medical in related software/DevOps/DevSecOps roles
• CI/CD deployment
• Software development and deployment in complex programmes
• Strong Data and Application understanding with underpinning Infrastructure solution development
• Technical Documentation production to a high standard

Desirable

• Governance of architecture or detailed designs throughout the project lifecycle
• Previously undertaken solution development and implementation of a large scale Data projects

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In line with Thales’ Baseline Security requirements, candidates will be asked to provide evidence of identity, eligibility to work in the UK and employment and/or education history for up to three years. Some vacancies may require full Security Clearance which can require further evidence to be provided. For further details of the evidence required to apply for Baseline and Security Clearance please refer to the Defence Business Services National Security Vetting (DBS NSV) Agency.

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